Week 2 Rocking Response

So, my blog is a bit late but in my defense I have been feeling quite under the weather lately and my flat mates can vouch for that. Last week's assignment, well. I thought it was a good exercise, I actually surprised myself with how much I had to say about brown garden mulch, it did not necessarily inspire me to create an extensive project surrounding brown garden mulch, although that is somewhat what we have been required to do, but I think it did get the creative wheels turning. Also, I believe I have changed my idea for the first project, it came to me on a toilet, peculiar I know, but you will understand when I reveal the idea I am about to tell you. So, I think I will center my project around bathroom graffiti, it came to me at a club in Surfer's this past weekend after Race Day, so it may have been a slightly intoxicated decision. However, I feel it has "heaps" of potential. It is sort of like the taxi idea, in that people enter a space and interact with it, however instead of a conversation it is a voluntary interation, everyone does not interact with the bathroom stall, but for some reason some of its' guests decide to make their mark, whether temporarily or otherwise in that space. I think this is interesting and I think with a few more creative bursts I might be able to come to some overarching conclusions about society according to who and what people write in bathroom stalls. I am not sure exactly what the narratives will be like, but I plan on doing enough research to come across plenty of real-life potentials and then add a fictional aspect.

As far as my project about the brown garden mulch. I would create a web of linked websites in which the audience could interact with the narrative I have created and my thought process by clicking from idea to idea and association to association essentially experiencing the process along with me. I would begin the project with a photo of brown garden mulch which would lead the audience member to a page with photos or links associated with the five branches, for example for my father I would have a photo of my father, for trees I would have a photo of trees, and so on, and for home I would have sayings with links to the page associated with home tagged to the word "home" in each of the short poetic sayings. Then I would have a train of the random ideas, with perhaps hand drawn photos, videos, cool interactive graphics, etc. I will have to expand on this at some other time that I am feeling more creative, but I think this is going somewhere beautiful yet mysterious at the same time. If only I had more html skills..